SLEERICKETS

Ep 207: Wild Ernestness, Pt. 1, ft. Jonathan Farmer


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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Carson McCullers

National Book Critics Circle: A Conversation on Poetry Criticism
The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

Paul Valery

Linda Gregerson

Stanley Plumly

Ep 132: Intermittent Positive Reinforcement on Harry Harlow

How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? by Lillian Ross

Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway

The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down by Adam Gopnik

Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America by Ava Kofman

Mountainhead (2025) 

Drake VS Kendrick Explained to White People by Josh Johnson


Secret show notes

Pacino's speech in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) 

Tar (2023) 

Ep 166: Three Bird Mafia, ft. Jonathan Farmer on the Order of the Third Bird

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway

Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway

In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway

Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991 to 1995 by Hayden Carruth

Frequently mentioned names:

Joshua Mehigan

Shane McCrae

A. E. Stallings

Ryan Wilson

Morri Creech

Austin Allen

Jonathan Farmer

Zara Raab

Amit Majmudar

Ethan McGuire

Coleman Glenn

Chris Childers

Alexis Sears

JP Gritton

Alex Pepple

Ernie Hilbert

Joanna Pearson

– Matt Wall

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed

Alice: In Future Posts

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: Minor Tiresias

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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